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IHG Hotels & Resorts opened the InterContinental Taipei on October 12, 2026, a 347-room property at the heart of the Taipei Dome complex. Developed with the Farglory group, it becomes the brand’s flagship in the Taiwanese market. IHG Hotels & Resorts is continuing its upscale rollout in Asia. The group inaugurated the InterContinental Taipei on October 12, 2026, in the Xinyi district, right next to the Taipei Dome and Taipei 101 tower. The hotel was developed in partnership with Taiwan...
The general manager of Cheval Blanc Paris takes over operations at LVMH Hotel Management. His promotion comes a week after Vincent Billiard’s appointment as COO, a sign of accelerating restructuring at the French group’s hotel division. LVMH Hotel Management is strengthening its operational organization. On October 12, 2026, Wilfried Morandini announced on LinkedIn that he had taken up the role of Director of Operations at LVMH Hotel Management, which he holds alongside his responsibil...
Accor has named Amélie Thiriet CEO of Orient Express, according to a press release published October 12. Until now Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Communication at LVMH Hotel Management, she joins a brand that is moving from project to operation, eighteen months after the opening of the portfolio’s first hotel in Rome and two years after the strategic partnership signed between Accor and LVMH. Amélie Thiriet comes from LVMH’s hotel holding company, where she oversaw the sales, m...
The key challenge is to maintain the point of contact – and the value it generates – long after the guest’s stay, using tools designed ‘above property’, at portfolio level rather than for each individual property. Born out of an operator’s needHospitality ON: You founded Duve in 2016 with your business partner. What was the original intention?Jeremy Atlan: My business partner and I have been friends since childhood. Whilst we were at university, around 2009, we set up a holiday rental ...
The British group’s lifestyle brand spans more than 30 countries and has 134 projects in the pipeline, a new milestone announced on October 5, 2026. Acceleration now hinges on the resort segment and on a first line of branded residences, signed in Egypt. Launched in the United States in 2004 as an urban boutique hotel, Hotel Indigo took fifteen years to build its first hundred properties, reached in 2019. The following seven years saw the pace reverse: the brand doubled its portfolio i...
Minor Hotels has signed the Anantara Retreat Rabat, its first property in Morocco. The 38-key luxury hotel is due to open in early 2030 in the capital. The project is being developed with Bloom Holding, an Abu Dhabi property developer active in residential, mixed-use projects, hospitality and education, both in the UAE and internationally. It also marks Bloom Holding's entry into the Moroccan hotel market. A 38-key hotel in the diplomatic districtThe property will be located in Rabat's...
Five years after its launch, Accor Live Limitless is turning the page. The Accor group’s loyalty program becomes ALL Accor, with a new tagline, “Stay for More,” and is preparing for the end of the first quarter of 2027 a completely redesigned experiences platform, built in partnership with Fever, an event ticketing platform, and offering more than 7,000 experiences. Behind this repositioning lies a bet: in the age of conversational agents, it is emotion, no longer date, place, and pric...
At the end of August, two Al-Thani cousins from Qatar's ruling family carried out a new split of the assets managed by the Maybourne group. In the deal, Constellation Hotels becomes the sole owner of the project under construction on boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, in addition to The Connaught, The Berkeley and The Emory. It will no longer be able to use the Maybourne name, which remains the property of the other cousin through Regis Maybourne Ltd. The project of transforming a forme...
In China, the banquet sustains upscale hotels and is now faltering, amid fewer weddings and official meals served without alcohol. Hyatt is responding with a wedding menu that brings together its award-winning restaurants, IHG with an in-house dining brand that adapts its menu to each region. In about ten years, the number of marriages registered in China has been cut in half, falling in 2024 to its lowest level since 1980, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. For upscale hotels...
As guest expectations continue to evolve, hotels are looking for new ways to deliver memorable and enriching experiences. Beyond comfort and quality service, in-room entertainment has become an essential part of the guest journey. With its premium, multicultural programming, The TV5MONDE offer enables hotels to provide inspiring content that appeals to both international travelers and enthusiasts of the French language and French-speaking cultures.TV5MONDE: a Premium Entertainment Offe...
Since 13 October, Airbnb hosts in France have paid a single service fee of around 15.5%. Until now, they paid about 3%, with the rest charged to the traveller. The customer now sees an all-inclusive price, set by the host. With this switch, the platform adopts the logic of online travel agencies. It adds to a series of changes that bring Airbnb closer to hoteliers' territory. A single fee paid by the hostThe old model was based on a split. The host paid around 3% of the booking amount....
